January 23, 2012: Episode 7x08 PLAY: Ogg 7x08 | Speex 7x08

Klaatu reviews some listener feedback. Yes, you're listener feedback!

Don't panic. GNU World Order has gained its own domain and is hosted on a new server, courtesy thelastknowngod. Update your feeds and bookmarks and stuff. Eventually the old domain name will stop working. Eventually.

MD5sums:
ogg a535ab7481bf21df24b09125b7fb14f6
spx e9c3684a262f8b0367d4d0fad900beff
Important Links:
Hacker Public Radio
Razor-Qt, a lightweight Qt desktop
Fluxbox, the definitive Linux window manager
Sigil, the epub generator
concr, sigFLUP's encryption library for yesplz
yesplz, sigFLUP's unixporn screeenshot uploader
January 9, 2012: Episode 7x07 PLAY: Ogg 7x07 | Speex 7x07

Klaatu reports on the Usenix LISA conference, muses about evangelism of Operating Systems, rants about digital distribution, raves about OwnCloud, and praises the Acer Aspire One's BIOS recovery methodology.

Please note that the GNU World Order has gained its own domain and is hosted on a new server, courtesy thelastknowngod. Update your feeds and bookmarks and stuff. Eventually the old domain name will stop working. Eventually.

MD5sums:
ogg 54b1c40ecabe3080396bf567852471fa
spx 739b91eb7f530d0bc60affe5690eee10
Important Links:
Owncloud
Sourcetrunk, quite a nice podcast.
December 25, 2011: Episode 7x06 PLAY: Ogg 7x06 | Speex 7x06

Klaatu and Holstein, from the Open Source Musicians Podcast and IRC channel, hang out and chat about the audio workflow on GNU Linux. Holstein provides some great tips about being a musician, Linux user, and audio producer, and volunteers to personally visit any new user's house and help them set up their sound studio (no, not really).

Please note that the GNU World Order finally has its own domain, courtesy thelastknowngod. Update your feeds and bookmarks and stuff. Or not. The old domain will continue to redirect to this URL for quite some time.

MD5sums:
ogg e64d6f46fa40dc73930d6306f8fdee95
spx 3856ecb0f3e87e65103a998ef0796d5b
Important Links:
Factorial Enterprises Impulse Response Effects!
Qtractor, the DAW that Klaatu uses
Ardour, the DAW that Holstein uses
Open Source Musician Podcast
December 11, 2011: Episode 7x05 PLAY: Ogg 7x05 | Speex 7x05

Klaatu talks for pretty much a straight 45 minutes about the film production workflow, mostly as a very verbose answer to a question posed by listener fiftyonefifty about how Kdenlive differs from simpler video editors. This, therefore, is a fairly complete overview of the film post-production process, and what solutions exist in GNU Linux. Does Linux have tools for each step? listen and find out!

Note that yes, we did get a new URL of gnuworldorder.info, thanks to thelastknowngod. So don't freak out when you see downloads coming from a different URL.

MD5sums:
ogg 618319028977355cfdfd9259b802ea95
spx cc4aa327fb418970ad6c2d2422bfca5e
Important Links:
Kdenlive
Kdenlive Articles on Opensource.com
November 28, 2011: Episode 7x04 PLAY: Ogg 7x04 | Speex 7x04

Klaatu talks about finding your own comfortable distro, Fedora 16, the Four Mystical Pillars of Linux Subversiveness, and the best format ever...epub.

MD5sums:
ogg 57acf2c9acaad19a9a192901b9ca25ac
spx c3bd4d1cc7ed274134e97a5cd973809a
Important Links:
Sample epub file used in epub tutorial
Fedora Linux
Mystic Pillars
November 13, 2011: Episode 7x03 PLAY: Ogg 7x03 | Speex 7x03

Klaatu retracts all of his praise for Gnome3, due to hate mail. The official stance of the GNU World Order is now that Gnome3 is bad.

Aside from now hating Gnome3, Klaatu delivars a Gnome3 tip from listener Pseudomorph, and a mutt tip from Linc from TLLTS.

Other topics: openSSL versus Convergence.io (including a convergence tutorial), and GIMP Paint Studio!

MD5sums:
ogg a2e4de0302b7df0b938e212e0ffae032
spx 39bad10966a9413b5aada34b4ef64fe7
Important Links:
Convergence
Gimp Paint Studio
Gimp Paint Studio installer for lazy people and n00bs
October 30, 2011: Episode 7x02 PLAY: Ogg 7x02 | Speex 7x02

Klaatu talks about Gnome 3. He takes a coffee break with you. And then he talks about LVM.

MD5sums:
ogg ff0b6f10680a46b44b49a81aa8a1011f
spx 439ee99bb7f5c6f421e0dd45015424af
Important Links:
Gnome3
OK, OK, Gnome3 for real.
October 17, 2011: Episode 7x01 PLAY: Ogg 7x01 | Speex 7x01

Klaatu checks in with Fedora, the KDE 4.6.5 network manager, and the Mandriva fork, Mageia. Then he takes about new users, the mythical New User Experience, and more. After coffee, he talks about how to sign your email with GPG, and the philosophy of Trust and the new SSL alternative, Convergence.

MD5sums:
ogg ac5a5133571d77ba47c1d046d5acce98
spx 1c384583b719af8f37ce835b622d9d55
Important Links:
Mageia
Convergence
October 3, 2011: Episode 7x00 PLAY: Ogg 7x00 | Speex 7x00

Back from his extended two-week hiatus from the show, a re-newed Klaatu talks about the new Fat Chance Lester release &Android&, unixpuppies.info, the yesplz fix, his talk at Ohio Linux Fest, lpr and lpadmin, ghostscript, foomatic, /etc/cups/printer.conf and more.

MD5sums:
ogg 01f3e2c38621667525ce4ab34ca461f1
spx fde793c2207a6fff08612bd5ec7d1e79
Important Links:
Android by Fat Chance Lester
unixpuppies.info - the work-safe redirect to unixporn.com brought to you by krayon and thelastknowngod

"We Take Accessibility Seriously!"

Deaf Users:

Unfortunately I have not found the time to transcribe the episodes that I record, or even do very elaborate shownotes as many people do for their shows. You're not missing much, though; I just ramble on and on about one thing or another, and the actual content can usually be condensed pretty effectively into short little articles. These articles, I write for a few different places but much of it ends up on my gopher site, also accessible via the new-fangledhttp protocol.

If you are a deaf user and find my content unacceptably inaccessible, then please feel free to let me know via email, IRC, or jabber. My email username is klaatu, and the domain that forwards the email to me is hackerpublicradio.org

Other Places I Dump Content:
Slackermedia is an ebook project explaining how to create multimedia on GNU Linux
XStraightXEdgeXLinuX is a dump of random articles and essays I've written, some redundancy, mostly still in-progress. But some good stuff.
...and generally other articles or books that I'm working on, which I'll announce once they are available.

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Other Users

I have some friends who are blind, and I kinda know a little about deaf users through my friend Maco. Anything else, I'm clueless. If you are finding the content that I produce in any way inaccessible, feel free to corner me at a technical convention or send me an email or IM or find me on IRC, and let me know what I can do to accomodate.

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